BACKGROUND There is an increased interest in the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support regulatory and reimbursement decision making. The EVIDEM framework was developed to provide pragmatic multi-criteria decision support in health care, to estimate the value of healthcare interventions, and to aid in priority-setting. The objectives of this study were to test 1) the influenc...

One of the hallmarks of human natural language (NL) interaction is the ability for people to balance a variety of social and communicative goals when choosing how to realize their speech actions. These goals can include pragmatic criteria such as correctness, informativeness, and brevity (i.e., Gricean conversational maxims) or social factors such as politeness. However, there currently does no...

BACKGROUND Tools for training professionals in rating personality disorders are few. We present one such tool: rating of fictional persons. However, before ratings of fictional persons can be useful, we need to know whether raters get the same results, when rating fictional characters. METHOD Psychology students at the University of Copenhagen (N = 8) rated four different movie characters fro...

OBJECTIVE To compare liaison psychiatric nursing with usual medical care in the management of older medical inpatients who screen positive for depression. DESIGN Pragmatic randomised controlled trial. SETTING Medical wards of UK district general hospital in rural East Anglia. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and thirty-eight medical inpatients aged 65+ screened positive on the 15-item geriatric d...

Accuracy improvement has been one of the most outstanding issues in the recommender systems research community. Recently, multi-criteria recommender systems that use multiple criteria ratings to estimate overall rating have been receiving considerable attention within the recommender systems research domain. This paper proposes a neural network model for improving the prediction accuracy of mul...